Havah Discussion Questions: Tosca Lee

1. How does the garden in Havah compare to your vision or idea of Eden’s garden?

2. Why do you think the God of the story chose to give the garden’s two inhabitants the option to go against his wishes?

3. When have you felt or feared that a decision or action you took was irrevocable? What kinds of actions or decisions truly are irrevocable in life?

4. Despite his parents’ great hope for him and his own best efforts, Kayin’s actions wreak havoc after his failed sacrifice. When have your best intentions backfired?

5. In the story, mists are an allegory for the unknown, the unexplored and for fear. What are the mists in your life and how do you make your way through them?

6. Havah and Adam hardly recognize the world around them by the end of the book. When have you looked around you at the circumstances in your life—physical or emotional—and seen them with a stranger’s eyes?

7. Has this retelling challenged any conventions of the traditional Adam and Eve tale for you?